Nurses rally outside Goulburn Base Hospital

Southern Highland News

Secretary of the NSW Nurses and Midwives' Association Goulburn branch delegate, Larissa Butler, speaking at a nurses rally outside Goulburn Base Hospital in support of a 15 percent pay rise.

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00:00Here today we stand before you and our colleagues who are on the floor still manning the hospital

00:05because without nurses and midwives essentially the hospital does not run.

00:10So I guess we're here to make the community hear us in our own time rally.

00:17What do we want?

00:20When do we want it?

00:22What do we want?

00:25When do we want it?

00:26Pay us properly, pay us fair, recognise how much we care.

00:34Fix the mess, stop our distress.

00:39When nurses and midwives are under attack what do we do?

00:46So our wages is just the beginning.

00:49I don't know about you but I know feeding my family with four children

00:53has become a chore.

00:55It is such a distressing weekly occurrence trying to find how many pasta dishes I can cook

01:01for four children.

01:03That's what 15% means to me.

01:05It doesn't mean that I'm not going to be at work any less.

01:09It means less stress at home.

01:11It means I'm able to provide for my family and that means it's a better work and home life balance.

01:19Who's exhausted?

01:22Because we can't retain nurses they're driving 55 minutes to Canberra.

01:27Why wouldn't you?

01:29So what do we want from this government?

01:33When do we want it?

01:35What do we want?

01:37When do we want it?

01:39Here today we stand before you and our colleagues who are on the floor still manning the hospital

01:44because without nurses and midwives essentially the hospital does not run.

01:50So I guess we're here to make the community hear us in our own time rally.

01:56What do we want?

02:00When do we want it?

02:02What do we want?

02:04When do we want it?

02:06Pay us properly, pay us fair, recognise how much we care.

02:09Pay us properly, pay us fair, recognise how much we care.

02:19When nurses and midwives are under attack what do we do?

02:22We stand up and we fight back.

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